Willie Nelson Quotes

Well, it's a Bloody Mary morning, my baby left without warning.

Nothing lasts forever, but old Fords and a natural stone.

If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic.

I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.

I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts and things like that. I just think it was something I already knew, something I had experienced in another lifetime.

It's an ongoing problem, an ongoing situation, life is. It's just life, and it never stops and it never will. You just be thankful for what you've got, and move on.

When evolution has been outlawed, only the outlaws will evolve.

Gatewood Galbraith was a good friend, and a tireless advocate for the repeal of the ridiculous ban on hemp & marijuana. His book ‘The Last Free Man Standing’ says it all.

After every tour, I think about hanging up the touring hat, and after a while of not working, I'm ready to play. I think I enjoy playing music more than I enjoy not playing music.

If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they're gone.

Be careful what you dream: soon your dreams will be dreaming you.

Family farmers are small farmers who love the land. They're still not getting enough money for their product and are rapidly losing their battle to stay in business. By helping the American family farmer, we will in turn help ourselves out of the economic hole that we find ourselves in today. It doesn't really matter how we got here; the point is, we have to dig our way out.

We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.

I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now

Fortunately, we are not in control.

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

But if you think of all the people who don't like me, just think of all the millions who've never heard of me!

Do something bad a thousand times and it's no big deal. Everyone just goes, "Willie f - up again."

The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body.

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

I was in the Air Force a while and they had what they call "policing the area." That's where you looked around and if there's anything wrong here, there, anywhere, you took care of your own area. And I think that's a pretty good thing to go by. If everyone just takes care of their own area then we won't have any problems. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there. And look around you and see what needs to be changed.

Just because she's leaving, don't start believing, that your rock and roll days are gone.

Small family farmers are the only things that can save us because they take care of the land. Future farmers of America are going to be our heroes. Same with biodiesel, either way we need small family saustainable and organic farmers.

What goes around, comes around.

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.

I don’t believe in adhering to any rules I don’t support and I didn’t vote for. To hell with what people think. Just be who you are and you’ll be happy.

My fans are very forgiving. So are my wives and my kids.

Biodiesel seems to be the answer to a lot of our prayers. Not only can it help the U.S. economy, our unwanted dependence on foreign oil, and the gasping environment, it could also help the family farmers out of this tragic dilemma they have found themselves in through no fault of their own.

I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'.

When I would sell encyclopedias, I would drive down the road looking for a house with a swing set in the back, and I'd say, "Oh, those folks got kids. They need some books." I'd knock on their door and sell them a set of encyclopedias, and those books were from $300 to $600. I'd look around the house, and if there wasn't that much furniture in the house, I felt a little bad about selling a $600 set of books to people who couldn't afford a couch. So I didn't last at that job very long.

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

If you want to make marijuana legal, you've got to stay straight long enough to f - vote.

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.

Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.

The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere.

And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.

Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation.

Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people regardless.

When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too.

A lot of country music is sad.